Finnish retail group S Group’s supermarket operator, SOK, will sell its 13 Prisma Peremarket hypermarkets in Estonia to local cooperative retailer Coop Eesti for an undisclosed price, ERR reports. Under the deal, the Prisma stores, nine of which are located in Tallinn, will change their name to Coop. The parties expect to complete the transaction…
Police in Estonia have detained a man suspected of planting a bomb that injured one person at the Ülemiste Keskus shopping centre next to Tallinn Airport on 20 December 2025, ERR reports. State prosecutor general Astrid Asi said that the 60-year-old man is a stateless resident of Tallinn with previous criminal convictions. She said that…
French risk management company Coface’s ranking of the 50 largest companies by turnover in the Baltic States in 2024 includes 28 companies in Lithuania, 15 in Estonia, and 7 in Latvia, LETA reports. The top five companies are all from Lithuania: retail holding group Vilniaus Prekyba with a consolidated turnover of EUR 8.02bn in 2024,…
A court in Estonia has found two Moldovan nationals guilty of an arson attack against a Ukrainian restaurant in Tallinn in January 2025, ERR reports. The two men were arrested in Italy in February 2025. One of the defendants told prosecutors that he was tasked by persons connected to Russian military intelligence (GRU) to firebomb…
